Rob Flaherty

Host @NkanythingPod, Co-Founder @TomorrowTgthr, Founder of Narrowcast Media. | Was: @kamalaharris @Joebiden @WhiteHouse @Marshalls |

[Rob Flaherty @Rob_Flaherty]

Kind of a banger

[Nithya Raman @nithyavraman]

There are 30,000 broken streetlights in LA. It's time we turn the lights back on. It's time for a city that works.

[Rob Flaherty @Rob_Flaherty]

@brianros1 shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Rob Flaherty @Rob_Flaherty]

Predictions:

>51 seats
>Fetterman flips
>Murkowski goes indy and caucuses with D’s

[Patrick Svitek @PatrickSvitek]

Lisa Murkowski endorses Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, the Democratic candidate for Alaska governor

[Nobody Knows Anything @NKAnythingPod]

How should Democrats respond to anti-trans attacks? @KelleyJRobinson assesses @SherrodBrown's attempt.

ROBINSON: "The difference now to a few years ago is that Americans have seen literally thousands of anti-trans bills introduced across the country."

[Karthik Ganapathy @kartpath]

Wait but a bunch of people on here (who coincidentally are funded directly by Big Tech) told me no one cares about this issue?! How can this be?

[Rob Flaherty @Rob_Flaherty]

@MikeIsaac his "creep" set to YMCA is an all time fav

[Andrew Bates @AndrewBatesNC]

She’s forgiven vote for Abdul

[Tomorrow Together @TomorrowTgthr]

just one more industry-funded super PAC bro. i promise bro just one more super PAC and voters will love data centers. bro. forget the electric bills bro. just one more super PAC bro please we just need one more ad buy and we can build the data cent

[Rob Flaherty @Rob_Flaherty]

Leading the Future reconstituting as a pro-datacenter SuperPAC because they have a humiliation kink I guess.

https://t.co/m05LtbgiYA

[Teddy Schleifer @teddyschleifer]

NEW —

The super PAC for DATA CENTERS has arrived.

Meet Building the Future. The group is spending millions for Darline Graham in the homestretch, a preview of fights to come in 2028.

With @ELaserDavies:

https://t.co/91yNqjacJK

[Rob Flaherty @Rob_Flaherty]

I thought this conversation was excellent, interesting, and well-facilitated. But wow did I find this exchange frustrating.

The dynamic at play here is that for-profit companies are racing to make a nearly-impossible-to-control technology that is smarter than we are at almost everything. If they get what they want, the best case scenario is it replaces humans at things and they get rich. The worst is that it kills people (and, likely, they get rich).

And maybe you don't think the "kill people" thing will happen. Cool. We should still have a democratic discussion about whether or not we want that before we get there, and if we do want it, what we want to use it for. And we should give us ourselves time to have that conversation.

It is also true that at the same time, AI is doing bad stuff right now. We should stop those bad things! And on top of those bad things, they are setting up an economic situation that leads to, through one door, job loss, and through the other, a massive market correction. We need to prepare for that reality.

But somehow a corner of the left has twisted itself into pretzels to say that “actually, regulating superintelligence plays into the hands of incumbents." But...the solution to incumbent-favoring regulation is to write better regulation, not to concede the question of what these systems become to the people building them.

Not regulating them plays into their hands! The whole thing is that their money (and concentration of power into their hands) comes when the technology is exponentially more powerful than it is right now.

This is just a different technology than we've dealt with before, and we need to act accordingly. Can’t we just...do all of this? What are we doing here?

https://t.co/WWtoU2MchG

[Emily Bazelon @emilybazelon]

So much happening in AI world. What should the govt do in response? Thanks to @SnehaRevanur @DKokotajlo @tylercowen @AlexBores & @Kabakab for hashing out answers with me in an NYT roundtable. https://t.co/RTULuW01RU

[Nobody Knows Anything @NKAnythingPod]

https://t.co/UcQbU95sMF

[Nobody Knows Anything @NKAnythingPod]

Democrats Smell Blood In Red Territory As Midterms Approach https://t.co/UcQbU960Cd

[Rob Flaherty @Rob_Flaherty]

Democrats Smell Blood In Red Territory As Midterms Approach https://t.co/5BL4QbO7Z1

[Rob Flaherty @Rob_Flaherty]

Democrats Smell Blood In Red Territory As Midterms Approach https://t.co/5BL4QbO7Z1

[Rob Flaherty @Rob_Flaherty]

https://t.co/5BL4QbNA9t

[Rob Flaherty @Rob_Flaherty]

More from the “no one cares about AI” chronicles — just a Republican in a tough race suing OAI less than two weeks from election day

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging they misled consumers about the safety of the company’s artificial intelligence chatbot and failed to protect users from harm.

[Rob Flaherty @Rob_Flaherty]

Me: [giant acme anvil drops on my head and the cartoon rabbit I’ve been chasing escapes]

yeah well no one even cared about this anyway

[Rob Flaherty @Rob_Flaherty]

It is truly very funny watching the “big-AI-Republican-consultant” industrial complex try to retreat to “no one cares about AI” as their talking point when they just tried to spend $100 million+ on the issue this cycle and stuff like the this keeps happening anyway

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Sherrod Brown: Elon Musk

Crowd: BOO!!!

Sherrod: Peter Thiel

Crowd: BOO!!!!

Sherrod: Donald Trump

Crowd: BOOOOOOO!!!!

[Rob Flaherty @Rob_Flaherty]

Circling back

[Rob Flaherty @Rob_Flaherty]

Yes, AI is so irrelevant in Ohio that the NRSC begged the tech industry to spend money to bail out data center perceptions (which they did)

[Rob Flaherty @Rob_Flaherty]

I am heartened to see the Republicans settling on “nobody cares about AI” as their strategy, though. And I hope they stay there!

[Rob Flaherty @Rob_Flaherty]

Yes, AI is so irrelevant in Ohio that the NRSC begged the tech industry to spend money to bail out data center perceptions (which they did)

[Patrick Ruffini @PatrickRuffini]

Prime example of what @adamkovac talks about of bandwagon groups running ads on the #10 ranked issue in the hopes of stealing credit for a victory that had nothing to do with them.

Literally the playbook The Groups™️ run every cycle.